"I'm still absolutely blown away by this metasoma. I have another edit of this one, where it looks like it's made out of black shiny metal, one of my favorite wallpapers ever. The original color was almost completely orange. I restored it to the original brown/black tone."

"This small scorpion species with around 5 cm body length (body+flat metasoma) has an exceptionally long aculeus. It’s named after my friend Mark who discovered it, and collected this exact specimen in the wild. Original colors restored based on a living one, also photographed by me!"

"I photographed a living one yesterday, this in combination with habitat images from Mark http://www.buthidae.eu, who collected this specimen in the wild for research purposes, allowed me to recreate the natural environment as close as possible in the studio."

All of them were collected for research purposes or are captive breeds, none of them were killed. Usually, they directly go to the universities. I keep them completely intact, which makes it a lot harder to photograph them at 6-10X.

Amazing shots! Jaw-dropping, in fact. I plan to shoot my Desert Hairy and this is perfect inspiration. Care to share lens details? I've got a 105mm Nikon Macro I'll be using, so my images won't be as magnified. I'll keep an eye out for the handbook, it looks interesting as well. Great job!
Edit: I see the Flickr links with more info now.

I'm excited by the dog like eye with patina. I'd have never thought they'd have eyes like that.

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The scratched eye seems to be everyone's favorite. I'm currently working on new even higher magnification macros of the medial and lateral eyes for the upcoming anatomy poster. It seems that the tiny lateral eyes have a colorful iris too.

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